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                                                               Illegal #33

  This  is  ILLEGAL  #33,  rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad.
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                                                             BUT WHO CARES?

                                  WOSSUP!?

  Aha,  the  winter is getting close... Lotsa games have been released, and
  that  conveys  us  this X-Mas feeling (yo, "Maria Whittaker's X-Mas box",
  hehe).  Looking  forward  to  another great weekend (December, 17th), I'm
  leaving  off  to  join  all parties... But first, I'll just send some hot
  wishes to all of friends like:

  STRIKE FORCE/MOVERS (CONAN -head up-, RAGMAN, DRAGO...), IKARI (JUST ICE,
  TRI-DOS  and  the  rest), FAIRLIGHT (STRIDER, Alain and Fred!), EAGLESOFT
  INC.  (Bob  and  Mitch),  BEASTIE  BOYS (CAPTAIN of the FUTURE, AXIOM and
  ACCEPT  - one year after?), MAD ALL (good luck), DOUGHNUT (SULU, the rite
  mooz,  and  NOSAH,  one  of  the  few  trustworthy  guys  i know), RADWAR
  ENTERPRISES  (Markus,  Bernd,  Theo, Arndt - nice appearance on TV), BROS
  (PACO, BAS, SMASH, GENE), HOTLINE (RADIX, SLH, RICO), COSMOS (SERVUS, BIG
  BEN,  SSD  +  ATT),  SHINING  8 (game over), PIT and his girl-friend, THE
  WANDERER  GROUP  (at  last  on  TV), MR.CURSOR!, WORLD OF WONDERS (Andy),
  VISION    FACTORY    /   THE   BEYONDERS,   THE   NEW   BENCOR   BROTHERS
  (acciiiieeeedddd!).

  RED  SECTOR  INC.  (THE  PREACHER, MR.ZEROPAGE), DEEJAY (der Dachdecker),
  PUBLIC  ENEMY  #1  (nice answering-machine, COLIN), that old woman Beany,
  MANIACS  OF  NOISE  (CHARLY),  FAME (MIC and his girl-friendsssss), HEIKO
  (still  alive?),  ACU  (Sorry  ALEX),  MR.PINGE,  FAC,  JOE WILLIAMS, ATC
  (ASTERIX,  OBELIX,  MIRACULIX,  PUDWERX),  CFR (LETO, HITCHER, DRUNKONY),
  TRIANGLE, JCS (FOZZ), the guys from SHN, ASS and DAVE err..., JOHNNY, UCA
  (MAD  HACKER),  ORACLE  (ANDY,  twice as nice), FUCKED BEYOND REPAIR (JOE
  guy,  trouble  with  lesbia?),  the  people from the gaff, DAVE E and his
  ANGIE  (aha!),  END OF CENTURY (Pet's Band), AVATAR (BERNIE, dead?), IAN,
  BERNIE, PETER, STEPHEN and GILIAN, some Chinese boy from school (headings
  for Army!), to all Amiga guys, all hating MAGIC CIRCLE, KROMBACHER and of
  course  again  to  all  of  the other boys that remain not mentioned (not
  deliberately).

  Special  hellos  are  deserving:  Mister  TRANS X (Yo, LEE! Thanx for the
  movie  and for keeping me "informed" all the time... Hope to get my hands
  on  you  next week!), Mister WEETIBIX (what the dickens and hell is going
  down with you, Georgie? Any problems? Trouble in School? With girls? With
  impotence? With disk-drives? No money? Motivation? With your sisters? I'm
  going to kick you in your ass if you aren't coming...) and last and least
  to  Mister  T'KAY  (the  Bayern swine! I talk to you every day so I think
  everything is said, right?) ...

  With all the best regards for 1989! Yours, JEFF SMART!

                  *EXTRA* VENLO MEETING CANCELED!? *EXTRA*

  December  16th,  1988: 24 hours before the (probably best?) Venlo meeting
  should  be opening it's doors, rumors spread that the meeting is gonna be
  canceled.  Even  the  Dutch guys (and they must know for sure ) said that
  the  people  organizing  the  meeting won't be holding it... Reasons were
  that  people  have  been  drunken  last  time, and some ruined tables and
  chairs by putting stickers on 'em.

  Yet,  nobody knows for sure, but the only thing we worry about is that so
  many  guys  from foreign countries are coming, so what shud they do?? The
  better solution would have been just to let the hooligans stay outside (I
  didn't  mean ya, Lee), but they decided (probably) to cancel the meeting.
  A  lot  of people are not sure whether to come or to stay at home. So, it
  seems  as  if  the  November meeting was the last Venlo in history... Not
  only  a  big loss for the cracking scene, but for the SHN itself (as they
  take  5  DM  for entrance and up to 500 people would have come, 5 * 500 =
  2500 DM ...cash...cash...) but we'll see anyway!

  Where are we gonna meet then?? Yours, uncertainly...
                                                                         JS

                       IKARI & ZARGON COPYPARTY FACTS!

  Hi  there,  this  is  EXCELL  of  IKARI  with an IMPORTANT message to all
  PARTY-FREAKS. As rumors already said when the party in Tommerup was over,
  IKARI  and  ZARGON  are back with a new and much better copyparty... This
  time  the  party place is found by ZACHO of ZARGON. The Party place will,
  (unlike  the Tommerup party place!) be big enough to host ALL who will be
  invited. And I tell ya' all that is important will be there!!

  The Place to be, is this time in: SLAGELSE GYMNASIUM. This is the biggest
  gymnasium  in  DK. Since ZACHO is forced to take class there everyday, we
  know  that space is NO PROBLEM! OK, now you all know where the party will
  take place (more info) But when??

  You  gotta  go  to  Denmark  between:  The  23 March and the 25 March '89
  (Easter  holiday  you know!!). The party will allow all (invited) persons
  to bring C64 - Amiga and ST. Also note that BEER, coke, pizza, sweets and
  lot's  of  other stuff like: discs for both Amiga and C64 will be sold at
  the party place (very cheap).

  Slagelse  is  a  very easy town to get to if you are able to find a train
  station  somewhere in Denmark. And since most computer owners are logical
  thinking  persons  also  you  can find it! So to make sure that you get a
  chance  to  meet  all  your swap-friends better make sure that you get an
  invitation  before  all  empty  seats  are  taken! Of course, all invited
  persons are sure to get a place to sleep and mess with their best friend,
  the  COMMY.  But  if  YOU  are not invited it might be a BIG mistake, and
  therefore  this  letter  is  to let you know that you are very welcome to
  contact us to gain access to the party of '89.

  Also  I have noticed that TRIANGLE also was thinking about making a party
  in  the  Easter holiday, but now that they know that IKARI and ZARGON are
  putting  this MEGA party on the road, I think that it would be a shame if
  they decided to make their party at the same time or maybe before, course
  I  think  that  1  party  in the first half of '89 is enough. So I say to
  TRIANGLE, call us and let's make a sort of an agreement.

  For  more  information  or an invitation to the party, contact one of the
  following:  EXCELL/IKARI,  XXXXXXXXX  X  XXXXX,  XXXX  Greve,  Denmark or
  SENTINEL/ZARGON  at tel. +45-X XXXXXX and ask for Henrik. Remember! Don't
  forget... Come to THE PARTY of '89! /EXCELL of IKARI

                                NEWS IN BRIEF

  Hi friends! This is RAGMAN from STRIKE FORCE letting you share the latest
  news that happened in the scene...

   * The  police  started  a  big raid the last few weeks. Though CONAN and
     DRAGO of SF were caught, we are gonna continue as before. Of course no
     addresses  were found as the police didn't find any disks with pirated
     software.
   * Surprising  to  see  that  every  known  guy in Bochum-Wattensheid was
     caught,  so  were  PERSHY  and CREATOR of ACROSS, but again the police
     didn't find any important things like addresses, etc.
   * Also, MOC of DRIVE was caught, but this time the police was successful
     and found a book full of addresses.. Oh.. Oh..
   * After  the  party  of  the  year, RADWAR stated that they want to quit
     working  on  the 64 and start a career on the Amiga, well some legends
     may be lost...
   * HOTLINE  seems  to  be  back after some months. With some new members,
     RICO  and SIDE (ex-SPHINX) and with their active cracking English guys
     BOD  (who  is  indeed THE GRONK'S brother), XXX, AIRBORNE and THARGOD.
     They released again some cracks and imports...
   * BAMBAM,  probably  HOLLAND's  importer No.1 joined forces of BROS, who
     firstly  made  some cracks (the Norwegian ones), but just some bad and
     not  fully  working  version.  And  the  German BROS members are still
     rideculing the whole group...
   * Movements  in  Great  Britain as good old DOUGHNUT CRACKING SERVICE is
     extremely  back  in biz! So did NOSAH (the editor of IGUANA) and HENDY
     left  ZENITH  and joined DCS, who still try to release fast and at the
     same time good versions (yet not able).
   * So,  it  looks  like  only  this  certain  guy called STEVE "Barbarian
     II-in-one-part" of ZENITH and IRONFIST "Do another USA intro" are left
     in ZENITH with the old standard?
   * After  all  difficulties in SCG have been removed recently as WEETIBIX
     and  CHUNK  wanted  to  quit totally and TRANS X went to DCS, SCG were
     built  up  again  and are consisting of: WEETIBIX, TRANS X, JEFF SMART
     and the new one, the fab German programmer T'KAY (ex-TRIAD).
   * Back  to  Germany,  the  shooting  stars  SHINING  8  are  gonna  quit
     everything  as they said that too many members have no time and so on.
     So goodbye!

  Let's move over to the land of the rising modem, the US of A:

   * Well,  ESI  seem to be not doing much at the mo (rather Amiga), so ATC
     is  taking over the American 64 business, but also the European hating
     NFI are quite strong on top with a couple of released games around.
   * Also  IKARI were not free from internal problems as the Danish members
     were  angry about the intro TRI-DOS coded. I thought it was very good,
     but  they  thought  it  was  crap. All problems got cleared up now, so
     everything is OK!

  That's all for this month, later then!
                                                     RAGMAN of STRIKE FORCE

                          MAD ALL'S MAILBOX *EXTRA*

  Here  go  the  last greets, my sympathy to: BUBULAND, RAM, CAUI (from the
  beginning  to the end), HITCHER (good having you so close to me), PRINCE,
  SHADOW,  PHOTONY, LETO 2 (the hope for tomorrow), JEFF SMART (We sure had
  fun,  didn't  we?)  IKARI  (MARKUS,  6 foot 6 of coolness), DELIRIOUS MAG
  (JAYCE  +  EVIL  EDDIE),  FAIRLIGHT  (I  respect  you  STRIDER  + HOBBIT)
  GENESIS*PROJECT  (You're  a  nice guy, TNT), HOTLINE ( SLEDGE's, BAMBAM's
  not),  IAN  &  MIC  (Miami  Vice, but twice as nice), SCOOP, JUDGES, A&D,
  DUTCH USA-TEAM (you were to good for us) SHIELD (Goodbye!), ARGUS (thanks
  for  being bastards one day and good friends the other day - it kept life
  interesting...my friends), UBI-Soft (for stealing our best programmers to
  make  games),  BROS  (for  being  so  big  and big-headed), TRANSCOM (for
  calling  the  war  off),  DOMINATORS (WARFREAK for having a good taste in
  music!),  LEGEND  (thanks  for  the  support), VISUAL FLEX (thanx for the
  Rolex).

  And to my DEAD friends - "CIAO" to: DS COMPWARE, HEADBANGER, old DOUGHNUT
  CRACKING  SERVICE,  ROTTON,  DAVE,  AEK  CRACKWARE, DOCTOR MABUSE, FUTURE
  PROJECTS, BWB, PLUTONIUM CRACKERS, ROCKY, RELAX, 1001 CREW, TRIAD & WOW.

  Strange,  looking  at the goodbye's to the current groups and the old and
  dead groups, I must conclude that I had more fun with the old groups, but
  then  again, there were no modems and no uncool Americans. Goodbye, cruel
  world - it has been an experience!
                                        Allan (MAD ALL) of COMMANDOFRONTIER

                INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH: CONAN OF STRIKE FORCE

  From  the  nowhere  to the top, STRIKE FORCE in deep corporation with THE
  MOVERS  worked  hard  to get to where they are now. They even proved that
  they can not only import, but also crack and also showed that Germans can
  be  fast,  very  fast!  I spoke to their main cracker, coder and importer
  CONAN.

  Q: Well, what's your age?
  A: At the moment I'm 17.
  Q: When did you get your first computer and why?
  A: I got my very first computer, that was C64 (just with a tape recorder)
     in  1985.  I  bought  it by myself 'cause I had too much money at that
     time.
  Q: How did you get into cracking?
  A: Some  day  in  1986  I  met THE MOVERS at the local shop. This was the
     first  time  I  heard  about cracking and furtheron I really wanted to
     learn it. That's what I did.
  Q: When was STRIKE FORCE founded, how many members are now in it?
  A: SF  was  founded on January 17th in 1988 by PERSHY, DRAGO, me and some
     other  guys  who left now. At the mo, SF is: RAGMAN, DRAGO, CAOS, FAIR
     SEX, several Amiga guys and by the way; ME!
  Q: Who are your best friends?
  A: MIKE/MAYHEM, SIMON+ODOM/EPIC, PETER PARKER, WOLF and all members.
  Q: Do you have any enemies?
  A: Yes, they are INSTINCT and MANDRAKE of CONQUEST.
  Q: What are your favourite?
  A: Demos:  "That's  the  way it is" by SCOOP and the "Think Twice" series
     from the Judges
     Games: Green Beret & Elite
     Music: Pop Mooz, Hip-Hop
  Q: Why did you choose CONAN as your name?
  A: Once I've been in a handball club, but though I've been the smallest I
     was  still  the  best.  So  everybody started calling me BARBARIAN and
     CONAN, that stuck!
  Q: What are you doing in your spare time?
  A: Listening  to  music,  chatting on the phone and attending copyparties
     (though I'm coming sometimes late).
  Q: What do you think about the 64's future?
  A: I think in some years the Amiga will take over the 64's role.
  Q: What was your favorite incident?
  A: When  SHIELD  called me one year ago (from Sweden). This was the first
     time I had to speak in a foreign language!
  Q: What  would  be  the  three  things you would take with ya on a lonely
     island?
  A: Sunshades, a towel and a girl!

  Thanx a lot!
                                                                         JS

                           THE 12TH COMMODORE SHOW

  The  12th  Commodore  Show  in London was much of a disaster! Firsty they
  were  charging  people  five pounds to get in! TOTAL RIPOFF! Well lucky I
  got  a  trade  badge!  On  the  Saturday, the following cracking and demo
  groups were present:

  JUST ICE (no shit dumbass, you typed the article about the show), TRI-DOS
  from  IKARI, BOD, XXX, THARGOD, and AIRBORNE from HOTLINE, IAN & MIC, ASH
  &  DAVE,  SUBZERO,  PUBLIC  ENEMY, HACKERS ELITE, LEGEND/SIGMA, JCS, MANY
  COMPUTERNETTERS! And lastly, a special appearance from MR.DECIBEL!

  Hmmmm! Well wot did we do? Well, we talked a lot, drank a lot of beer and
  got  some  blank  disks, well wot is one supposed to do! There were a few
  games  released,  of  course  all cracked that week. I heard QUARTEX took
  care  of  all Amiga releases! Overall verdict of the show: If more groups
  had turned up it could have been better.

  If  you  saw  the  CTW Magazine at the beginning of this Month, you would
  have  seen a picture of LAZER/NBB and an accompanying story about piracy!
  Hmmm!  Is FAST watching you! Hopefully a copy of the story will appear in
  the  next  ILLEGAL.  (it's in THIS one! -ed) My friend MAD ALL appears in
  court this week about his allegations of tax fraud, Good Luck, ALLAN!

  Regards  to  the  following groups: All IKARI members, HOTLINE, TG/TRIAD,
  IAN & MIC, ASH & DAVE, FAIRLIGHT (STRIDER, HOBBIT, GOLLUM), CFR (MAD ALL,
  HITCHER), all at X-RAY, 2000 AD (APOLLON), DOMINATORS (ROOZET, JCH), BROS
  (PACO,  BAM-BAM),  All  at  STRIKE  FORCE/MOVERS,  UNIC (ANUBIS + XEXOX),
  ACROSS  (ACCESS),  MCG  (TOMMY),  TRISTAR  (POLY), JUNGLE COMMAND (JOHN),
  SCOUSE-HOUSE  (WEETIBIX,  LEE,  JEFF + CHUNK), DCS (MR.SULU), TAU, PUBLIC
  ENEMY #1, RAMPAR, NFI, ATC and INC.

  Well,  catch  us at Venlo or the RADWAR/ILLEGAL party! Best regards,

                                                         JUST ICE of IKARI!

                           A DAY AT THE PARTIES...

  After  the  first two hot weekends, FIRST was April 16th with a Venlo and
  then  the  Private Party, then SECOND September 17th with the PC SHOW. We
  now  look forward to the December 17th of 1988, the climax and a good end
  of the cracking year.

  The  Saturday  will start with the usual Venlo meeting, taking place from
  11  to  4 o'clock. Every known cracking group had announced to come, even
  English  and  Austrian  guys trying to attend this time some of which are
  IKARI  (who  are  always  very welcome at Venlo, now for the third time),
  SCG,  DCS, and COSMOS (who will be there for the first, but hopefully not
  the last time) and of course, all the faces you used to look at...

  When  the  Venlo  meeting  closes its doors, WORLD OF WONDERS, one of the
  best  Amiga  groups  in  this  entire world, opens their meeting directly
  afterwards  somewere  in Holland, but very close to the German border. As
  the  name  WOW  always  stands  for the latest news on the Amiga, you can
  guess that one surely will get all the latest things on 16 bit there from
  the  first  hand. The party will go up to 7 o'clock. Then we are going to
  head to the crown of the day!

  THE  RADWAR  V2/ILLEGAL PARTY!! Starting at 7.41 up to ??? The party will
  take  place in a big discotheque in Heinsberg, and not only all guys from
  Venlo  are  supposed  to  come, but also a lot of other known people will
  surely  be  there,  and the best thing about the party is: THERE WON'T BE
  ANY COMPUTERS! But there will be GIRLS, ACTION, SHOWS and BEER, BEER, and
  more  BEER!!!  You  can also meet some guys from known software companies
  like  Rainbow  Arts,  from software magazines like ASM, a German TV team,
  and thousands of other things to do...

  As  you  are  reading  this  issue  probably on one of these parties, you
  already  know  how  everything  worked. But I sure hope that this will be
  another  top  weekend of 1988, and also that many people will come. We're
  gonna  also  present you some special guests, so you will be surprised...
  So,  I  have to pack my bag to be prepared for the parties! Go for it, go
  for it...! C U there!
                                                                         JS

     A LETTER WRITTEN TO CTW MAGAZINE IN RESPONSE TO: "PIRATES ON AN EGO
                                   TRIP!"

  I  found it amusing to read the letters by Clive Warner and Rob Massey on
  the  subject  of  computer  piracy in recent editions of CTW. After seven
  years  the state of the war between pirates and software houses/retailers
  is  that  the  pirates  won a long time ago! Yes, I am a pirate, and I am
  confident in stating that piracy is now such an organized network that it
  is impossible to stop.

  This  network consists of tens of thousands of pirates (several thousands
  in  Britain alone!), who crack games, swap by mail and modem all over the
  world,  and  hold  regular  copyparties to exchange C64, Amiga, and video
  copies.  There  is  even a magazine run by pirates for pirates, which has
  the very appropriate name of "ILLEGAL". The constant argument that we are
  killing the industry is rubbish because if we were not able to copy games
  at  all,  we  certainly  wouldn't  buy  90 percent of the rubbish we have
  pirated.

  The  pirates exist because of the amount of inferior software, along with
  the challenge of cracking and the super stardom received. I, myself, have
  over  2,000  pirated games and over 250 pirated videos, many of which are
  not  released  in  UK cinemas yet (e.g., Red Heat). As there is no way to
  protect  software  against  crackers,  the  only  way  to  stop  us is to
  prosecute us, and catching us may prove just a little bit tricky!

  The  software  houses  and retailers have had their say on the subject of
  piracy,  so how about staying neutral and letting the pirates have theirs
  by printing this letter?

                   Yours sincerely,
                                         LAZER of NEW BENCOR BROTHERS

                               CTW'S RESPONSE:

  Sorry,  but  CTW  can't  stay neutral on this subject. CTW is part of the
  industry  and  as  such  cannot  condone an illegality that is ultimately
  hurting everyone -- retailers, distributors, publishers and consumers.

  The  fact  that  consumers  are hurt too might be hard to swallow on face
  value,  but  the  point is that if pirates continue to operate on a large
  scale  then  a  proportion  of  this industry's potential revenue will be
  lost.  That extra revenue might just enable publishers to push themselves
  a  bit  harder and spend more money making the best software possible. If
  the  best games possible aren't being produced because of piracy, then it
  is the real games player who is losing out.

  Of  course, copying is easy and invites people to save a few bob here and
  there  on  a  game  that  would  never  be  purchased at full retail. But
  organized  piracy  stinks  --  and the sooner the NEW BENCOR BROTHERS and
  other mindless counterfeiters are brought to book the better.

           OLD C64 LEGENDS PART II - THIS MONTH CRACKING 1985-1987

  At last, at last... We finally managed to get the second part of the "OLD
  C64 LEGENDS" done, and here we go....

  Well,  back  into  the  origins of the crackers. End of 1985, groups like
  DYNAMIC  DUO,  NEWLOOK  and  THE  STARS  ruled  the  scene.  DYNAMIC  DUO
  consisted,  as one might guess, of two members, namely the guys ROBIN and
  HANS-JURGEN,  who were cracking every single game that has been released,
  but they didn't only gain friends, anyway some of their superior releases
  have  been  such  as Super Cycle, Ghosts'n'Goblins or W.A.R. around 1986,
  when after taking two new members in, dropping work end of 1986.

  They  then  started  working  on Amiga and meanwhile programmed this game
  Thunder  Boy. NEWLOOK got famous with cracking Bomb Jack, while THE STARS
  from  Norway released this Asterix and the Magic Cauldron. SODAN and R2D2
  programmed  the  first  Superwriter for THE FLYING CRACKERS. Other groups
  that  have  to  be mentioned are: DOUGHNUT CRACKING SERVICE. Who does not
  remember  the cracks like Thai Boxing, when the crack was only working by
  typing "run" after the intro. After a long break they were cracking Delta
  again, and are again around nowadays!

  Or  remember  the BENCOR BROTHERS, who started out to be a competitor for
  EAGLESOFT INC with releases like Indoor Sports or several Epyx games, but
  they  broke down and built up NEW BENCOR BROTHERS here in Europe. Another
  important  US  group  started  to be UNTOUCHABLE CRACKING FORCE with some
  cracks  like Carmen San Diego or even Top Gun, but after their cracker JJ
  THE  BREAKER  had to go to the Navy, UCF had to quit for some years. Some
  attempts  to  rebuild  the  legend  again,  failed  this  year as one can
  remember.

  Back to Europe, finally a lot of different cracking groups were born, and
  England,  Sweden  and  Germany turned out to become the main countries in
  cracking.  One  of  the  first  groups  pushing out training modi was the
  Swedish  group  TRIAD.  TRIAD  also was the first group presenting ranked
  greetings  lists. Can one figure out how it would look like today without
  any  rankings??  One of their most important releases have been the fully
  working version of Epyx's World Games, you know the rest about the group.
  They  could  even  replace  the  big  loss of the fab MR.Z by another fab
  cracker  called  JANITOR  (MR.Z  started  to  work  on PC's), but finally
  couldn't  replace  JANITOR again, so this year was TRIAD's last. But they
  formed the way of cracking, trainers and quality cracks.

  The  most  important  German group was, without a doubt THE LIGHT CIRCLE,
  that  included  groups  or  guys  like RADWAR, MR.ZEROPAGE, PATER BECKER,
  ASSOCIATION,  FLASH, CRACKING FORCE BERLIN, EDE, DUKE and several others.
  Most  powerful  releases were: International Karate, Alter Ego and Kettle
  by  RADWAR, Printfox, Disk-Tool and Epyx's Championship Wrestling by MZP,
  Newsroom  and Turbo Nibbler 3 by PBA or Uridium by CFB+EDE, and under the
  name  LIGHT  CIRCLE games like Bazooka Bill or Portal have been released.
  FLASH  organized  the  old FLASH CRACKING GROUP totally new together with
  DUKE,  IRATA, ZERON and PBA. First demos have developed during this time.
  Remember  that  demo  from FLASH or SODAN's fab ones using first time the
  borders.  Another  group  got famous, not so much with cracking, but with
  excellent  programs,  the 1001 CREW with their "Card Cruncher", which was
  first  totally  exclusive  tested  by  TRIAD  with a big success or their
  "Escos"...

  Now  you may be wondering, what are the guys doing now? As it is not such
  a long time ago, since the guys have been around, a lot of them are still
  in  your  ears.  Some like DCS had a great comeback, others are around on
  the  Amiga,  for example are FLASH, IRATA for the new built up RED SECTOR
  INC,  born  out  of  the  ashes  of TLC. Other groups started to work for
  companies  or  programmed  games  like  the DYNAMIC DUO did, nowadays TCS
  released   their  first  games.  Still  one  can  lose  some  tears  when
  remembering  back  to  old  times  when only a few groups were ruling the
  cracking  world.  Nowadays too many groups are on the top, mainly because
  the computers got more and more popular.

  But, if there haven't been so many cracking groups, who would have spread
  all  the games that wouldn't have been spread normally? We can't be sure,
  that  none  of  the  companies  or  groups  or  games would exist either,
  wouldn't  they? Greetings to all old boys mentioned!

                                                   Done by MWS/RWE + JS '89

                              FACTS ABOUT VENLO

  You all know about this certain meeting every month in VENLO, but did you
  know  who  is organizing this? Did you know that there are other meetings
  every week in Holland?

  Well,  lemme  explain,  STICHTING  HUISCOMPUTERS NEDERLAND (I don't speak
  Dutch so I don't have the slightest idea what it means), or SHN organizes
  those  meetings  for the aim of spreading PUBLIC DOMAIN (ho?) software on
  computers  like  VIC20,  C64, Plus 4, C128 and on Amiga... Those meetings
  take  place:  every  1st  Saturday  a month in Houten (close to Utrecht),
  every  2nd  Saturday  a  month in Nijmegen, every 3rd Saturday a month in
  Venlo  (I think I have heard of this) and every last Saturday in Den Haag
  (not  in December). The meetings are open from 11 to 4 o'clock and one is
  charged 5 Dutch Guilders for entrance (equivalent to 5 German Marks).

  The Venlo meeting is obviously the most known and popular one, as for the
  first  time  in  Venlo  history,  German TV station (WDR) showed up about
  computer  games  and  all that includes that. And also for the first time
  people  have been thrown out for drinking alcohol (no you idiot, not me),
  these were: ORION, CRYPT and PHOTONY/CFR.

  Reasons  for  the  popularity  of  this  Venlo  thing can be found in the
  crackers'  history  when HOTLINE and RADWAR formed the Venlo meeting from
  October  '87  on  to  that  what  it  is now, the most important European
  cracker  meeting.  Meanwhile,  almost  every  known  European group has a
  member  present,  even  British or Swedish groups have been there and are
  going  to  come again. So it seems as as if DECEMBER '88 could become the
  best  (most  overcrowded)  meeting  after  the APRIL '88 one, as not only
  IKARI,  DCS, SCG, SF/MOVERS, BROS, HOTLINE, ORION, SPHINX, TWG, RWE, CFR,
  FAIRLIGHT,  BEASTIE BOYS, COSMOS and a hell of other cracking groups, but
  also  the  German  TV  tends  to come again, so you got no chance to miss
  it!!!
                                                                      JS'89

                      THE STORY OF COLONY 12 / SYSTEM 4

  And  here goes the beat then... I have starting position FOUR, now here I
  go  again for the final battle. But if I should win tonight, it's not for
  sure  that  the  colony  will  still  lure  around  as  before... Anyway,
  "BANG"... GO GO GO!

  I  have a fine time, running and watching the others, something like some
  42,195  kilometers on my way! Ha... I know the way. I must admit that I'm
  feeling  a  bit  bad  after  this  race, 'cuz it was quite easy for me, I
  practiced  a  lot...  Hehehe...  but  who  dares wins! Anyway, as now the
  situation became safe again, I turn this colony into a system and take 8,
  so  that  makes  4... the system is alive! Like I am. But now I feel like
  the  leading person, I have unlimited credits on all boards, and, best of
  all unlimited access and highest priority on our "BASE" board.

  That  means  I  can  watch  everybody else, even the other groups and the
  female  groups.  HAR  HAR! I now have the right to put up the first 30 in
  the  rankings like I want to do, and you can bet a buck that this will be
  a  strong  circle,  the  House of Lords! Well, the beer is making me feel
  sicker  and  sicker.  We have a party down at the secret ex-colony, a big
  "SYSTEM  FOUR"  in  golden letters is standing high above the door to the
  entrance.  I feel the power, though I have to go one year back at getting
  the qualification, this won't make me give up.

  Of  course  not,  what did you think? And that's good, otherwise I had to
  join  the  army for two years and this would have meant that I would have
  to  remain  passive,  but so I'll be there one year longer, hahaha! Well,
  down at the cellar, the boys stripped already off their jeans, when I was
  coming  in.  This  is  the best part, when you can do with the kept girls
  what  you  want,  every  dirty things included! Haha, I don't care really
  about  it,  but  the boys do. 'specially Mike, the old buddy, ten seconds
  later  he  was  hanging  on the first free arsehole he could find. We are
  laughing, 'cuz he only needed some few minutes to come.

  DARN!  That's  pretty fun here. Well, I'm always careful at these things,
  you know about it... Back from the girls attack (dirty, dirty, well, Mike
  had  his  fun anyway), I sit down in my room. Phone up a friend, who is a
  party  animal,  turn  on the news and drink some tea. Aha, after this fab
  weekend far away from home (which won't be beaten anymore), I get to know
  that there will be a good damn thing to take part in. Now everybody is so
  confused, that the most of them think that I've gone crazy and sucked out
  or so, but guess what? I'm still here...

  Well, this friend of mine, who built up his own colony some miles away as
  nobody  else could do and he gained respect as no one else before, he has
  grown tired. I still hope to meet him to clear up everything. If you pass
  the  test  you  can  beat  the  rest, but I don't like to compete if it's
  possible...  All the best freaks will be here. As one year ago, when Mike
  had  his  famous  problems with the bad fish! I still have to laugh about
  it,  when  I  remember  that.  Aha,  the  phone  rings!  The party animal
  perhaps!?

                                                      To be continued... JS

                      RADWAR PARTY II DEMO COMPETITION

  Caramba  -  Ole! Here we go again... Now, all you guys have the chance to
  show  us  the  real skill of your big knowledge on Amiga or 64. We invite
  you  all  to take part in the 1st official Party-Demo Competition. If you
  have  been  at the Party or if you have heard anything about it, then the
  only thing you have to do is:

  Make  a demo about the Party, to show all the kids around the globe, what
  happened at this powerful meeting. We decided to split the competition in
  3 parts:

  1. Coding ideas and technical support (Aloha he!)
  2. Visual design (graphical ideas!)
  3. Aural effects (musicians, that's your chance!)

  We  offer many prizes, and everybody who'll take part will get something.
  We've  got  prizes like: 150 ORIGINAL RADWAR AIDS PROTECTS, public domain
  disks,  original  games (Amiga & 64), Cop Shockers and a lot more. If you
  think that you're ready for this, then send your DEMO up until the END of
  February  1989 to: Digital Marketing - "Demo Competition", XXXXXXXXX XXXX
  XX, XXXX Huckelhoven, West Germany.

               DISK COVERS OF THE MONTH BY HOBBIT OF FAIRLIGHT

  Some  cool disk covers! Ahh... The art! All done by the master; HOBBIT of
  FAIRLIGHT! Check'em out!

                    GOGO BROWN... YER MONTHLY NIGHTMARE!

  Yo Lads and Gents, latest new reports that I'm suspected to be STRIDER of
  FAIRLIGHT   and  JUST  ICE  of  IKARI  simultaneously!  Aha...  Surprise,
  surprise... Well this time I'm gonna tell ya;

  WHAT  EVERYBODY  KNOWS  BUT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT! Have you already wondered
  why  only  a  few  demos  are  appearing?  The  answer is so simple, that
  everybody knows it, but nobody admits it or talks about it... It's easily
  the  most  important  thing in life (after girls), namely MONEY, MONEY! I
  really can't remember who started to work for software companies, but the
  MANIACS OF NOISE must certainly be one of the first, who were producing a
  hell of music pieces for every kind of companies, and are really becoming
  millionaires among the pirates. Yes, THE MERCENARY CRACKER was some other
  handle   used  by  CHARLES  DEENEN,  and  MON  is  equivalent  to  SCOOP,
  nevertheless they are one of the best programmers and musicians around.

  This  was  followed  by  the C-Netters, firstly IAN & MIC, ASH & DAVE and
  last  but  not least CHOROID, who is now working for OCEAN under his real
  name  JONATHAN DUNN and makes a hell of money. Well it turns out that IAN
  & MIC just are able to make some shit games that are really not worth the
  money (though they're budget games).

  Latest  examples  can  be  found  in Germany, where the old legend RADWAR
  ENTERPRISES  formed  this certain company DIGITAL MARKETING and after the
  disappointing  success  of "DIGITAL NEWS", they finally got some of their
  friends  like  DEEJAY/ex-TRIAD or PGI/ex-TFD or SEBASTIAN/WOD to work for
  them  and  make games or utilities. Thing is that this "DEMO DESIGNER" by
  DEEJAY is really quite good, but this is just the positive example. A bad
  one  is another German company MAGIC DISK, whichused to release some shit
  disk-magazine,  100  times  worse  than  Digital News. They employed this
  WALTER/ex-WOW  and  711  to work for them and he gets about US $600 every
  month  for  just  calling  up his friends and get them producing crap for
  MAGIC DISK, who are, indeed, paying very well.

  So,  not  so  talented  programmers  like  this  "kicked-out-of-SPHINX-I-
  have-never-heard-of-guy"  FATE  is  programming  some crap just to get US
  $600  for  it.  Another one getting rich is MR.CURSOR, who already earned
  over  US  $3000  for MAGIC DISK productions. Worst example of all is COCO
  (ex-MCL,  ACA,  still-German  BROS),  who  is telling everybody that he's
  working for RAINBOW ARTS, but is in fact not. I don't know of what use it
  is, to tell such bullshit.

  This  list  can  be  enlarged  into 100s of pages, but I'm just wondering
  where  all this turns out from... Certainly, it's the best insurance when
  working  for  a company, but is this really the right way? I remember the
  time  when  everybody  was  shouting  and  moaning about the bad and evil
  software  companies,  now they're standing hand in hand... As long as the
  companies have enough money, you won't see any real demos, I'm damn sure!

                                     Yours sadly, GOGO BLACK, err... BROWN!

                             HOW TO KILL AN EEL

  Johnny,  a  12  year old boy was very nosy for a boy at his age. He heard
  from  one  of his friends that there is a pretty girl at school who liked
  him.  He  asked  his  mum what he could do 'cause it was the first time a
  girl  was interested in him. She gave him some tips, but couldn't explain
  all 'bout boys'n'girls and so she said;

  -"My  little son, your sister's boyfriend will stay here in our house for
  some  days. You can hide in your sister's closet and listen or watch what
  they're doing!"

  A  few days later Johnny's mother wanted to know what he learned the last
  days, and Johnny-boy began to tell his story.

  -"It  was  nearly  midnight when Nancy and Mike came home from the RADWAR
  party  last  night  and they were happy and drunken as they went into the
  sleeping  room. They sat down and began to talk about bullshit stuff from
  the  party.  Then  suddenly Mike turned off almost all the light and they
  both  began to kiss each other. I think Nancy felt badly sick 'cause Mike
  slipped  with  his  hands  under her shirt to feel her heartbeat like the
  doctor  is  doing. But he wasn't as good as a doc 'cause Mike had trouble
  finding  the  heart's  location  and so he fumbled around with her balls.
  Then  I  think Mike got this sick feeling too -- they both began to groan
  like  hell.  A few minutes later they couldn't sit any longer and so went
  into the bed and laid down.

  Then Nancy got red in her face -- it was a fever 'cause she said that she
  was  very hot. But then I finally found out why they were so sick! A very
  big eel crawled out of Mike's trousers and suddenly it jumped out and was
  standing  up  high,  it  was real 20cm tall! Mike then caught the eel, so
  that  it  couldn't flee away. When Nancy saw the eel, she felt afraid and
  put  her  mouth  open wide and she said that this was the biggest eel she
  had  ever  seen.  But  I  have  seen  bigger eels down by the lake. Nancy
  somehow  had  big  courage, she tried to kill it! She caught its head and
  pushed it in her mouth - in order to bite it.

  Suddenly,  Nancy  made a strange noise, and the eel slipped away from her
  teeth.  I'm  sure  the eel had bitten her back. So Nancy gripped it again
  with  her  hands  and Mike pushed a kind of mussel over the eel's head so
  that  it wasn't able to bite anymore. Nancy laid down on her back and she
  spread  her legs (not any disks) so that Mike jumped on her. He wanted to
  crush  the  eel!  They  were  fighting so hard that the bed turned upside
  down.  A  long  time later, they made it. The eel seemed to be dead. Mike
  stood  up  and  it  was hanging down and its entrails were out. Nancy and
  Mike felt tired, but celebrated their victory with a long kiss. Then they
  got a shock, the eel wasn't dead -- it was still alive.

  I  think  eels  are like cats, they've got also nine lives. But Nancy and
  Mike  didn't  want  to  give up -- so they prepared for the final battle.
  Nancy  jumped up and sat down on Mike's eel to kill it. After a 34 minute
  fight,  it  was  100% dead and Mike plugged the eel's coat over it's ears
  and threw it into the toilet."

  THE  END! A Happy New Year and Happy eel killing for 1989. Signed, MWS of
  RADWAR

                           BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY

  Yeeeeaaaaaah  boyz!  Don't  believe  that  hype!  You  may  be  saying to
  yourselves  why  have  there been American imports by JUST ICE? That dude
  hates  Americans!!?? Well you're still right! Most of them are Fuck-Nuts!
  Since  the  article,  any  bad  feelings  from me and KID QUICK have been
  resolved.  We have an agreement where all our cracks are available on the
  RAMPAR  HQ  but  we're not interested in speed coz that causes lame speed
  cracks,  but  still  get guys (no names mentioned, but they know who they
  are)  who abuse the situation and release un-tidy cracked and non-trained
  games  also  not checking if they need a fix on all the American BBSs. We
  have  no pressure from RAMPAR and they know that. I only download quality
  American  releases  such  as  Rocket  Ranger  and  still  get  a  load of
  S.E.U.C.K.S. and re-names cluttering up the boards!
                                                        By JUST ICE / IKARI

                             PROGRAMMERS WANTED

  C64  &  Amiga! Tools and Games! If you've written a cool utility, a sound
  editor  or  a  game,  then  contact  us at the following address: Digital
  Marketing  -  Software  Herstellung  Vertrieb,  XXXXXXXXX  XXXX  XX, XXXX
  Hucklenhoven, West Germany

                       THE EUROPEAN CRACKER SCENE MAP

               [* MAP OF EUROPE SHOWING THE VARIOUS GROUPS *]

                            VENLO DISK STEALERS?

  It  has  come to my ears that some thief was making his rounds during the
  last   Venlo   meeting   (November   11th).   Well,  the  thing  is  that
  Disk-notchers,  disk-boxes  and  a  hell  of  Amiga and 64 diskettes were
  stolen. That we are pirates doesn't usually mean that we steal disks from
  ourselves, is that clear?

  So, if that swine is reading this, he should have that courage to give at
  least  a very important disk back that belongs to the graphician WIZ-ART!
  of  MAGNTIX,  and  the disk was filled up with several logos and graphics
  that  he  was  developing for different groups. He even announced that he
  pay  10 DM for the guy sending back the disk! So we're waiting for if the
  guy is a real pirate with some brain or some tough minded kid... /JS

                          THE WANDERER GROUP ON TV?

  I  think,  the  news that a German TV station attending at the last Venlo
  meeting  made its round, so I don't have to tell 'bout it. Well, the guys
  are  making some king of computer show, where non-professional programers
  present  their  games  and  the games are then played by some kids. Well,
  between  the  game  sequences some information-videos about what ever one
  can  do  with  a computer, so it happened that the guys from TWG appeared
  last week on the screen with some blue shades over their faces.

  They  were  just  showing  them that they crack a game, and that was all.
  Well,  as  it  concerns  the  show called "HIGH SCORE", it's getting much
  better  every  time. Only bad thing is that it's transmitted over a local
  German  TV  station  that not all Germans can receive. Hoping for more on
  this subject, yours!
                                                                        JS!

                          MANIACS OF NOISE SPECIAL

  In the last few months we heard a lot of music from us in the demos which
  you  all made (if you take a close look at them your can barely call them
  demos,  but  ok...).  A  few  months  back  somebody  used a piece called
  "Ice-Age"  in  a  demo.  This piece was originally made for a member from
  IKARI  for  his  game  Ice-Age.  We  didn't  hear  anything from that guy
  anymore, so we tried to sell it to somebody else (we had no contract with
  him).  After  a  while  a  firm called Probe Software had interest in the
  piece.  It  was almost sold when they saw a demo downloaded from Compunet
  with  that  piece  of  music in it. Probe called me and said the deal was
  over.  So  we  lost  360 pounds which we should have got for it. The same
  thing  happened with Alloyrun (yes, the game by ASH & DAVE). I don't know
  from  whom  the  person  in  this  matter got it, but we lost another 375
  pounds.  If  the same is going to happen with GALPUS now, then you can be
  sure that will trace the person(s) who brought it on the market. Thalamus
  was also very angry and almost didn't want to pay us for Hawkeye.

  Is  this  really  what you hackers want?? I don't know if you realize it,
  but we have to make a living out of it. It's not just a game, but a piece
  of  software  which is very valuable to us. If you still want to hear our
  music  in games, then please stop using unreleased musics. If you are not
  sure,  then  please call me. If you get a piece of music from us which is
  not released, then please call me. In case the information is valuable to
  us,  you  will  get a reward (honest!), but don't use the music in such a
  lousy thing as a demo!!! I hope you all understand the situation in which
  we are in.

  Another  thing:  We  get  a  lot of letter from people asking if they can
  "join"  MANIACS  OF  NOISE.  Let us be clear about this point: MANIACS OF
  NOISE  is  not  a  group, but a registered trademark which we use to sell
  musics  or sound effects. If you really want to "join" MON, then the only
  thing  you  can  do  is  to write me letters of application with eventual
  examples  of  what you already did. Then I will have a look if you are so
  good to work for MON as a professional musician as full-time or part-time
  co-operator.

  I  don't  care  about people using my music player, as long as they don't
  use  it  for commercial purpose or commercial example material, it's even
  fine to me.

  A couple of weeks ago a
  German freak called me    GAME TITLE           COMPANY            ARTIST
  and asked if he could
  interview me for his      Outrun Europe        Probe               JT+CD
  "SMASHER" magazine. I     Eliminator           Hewson               JT
  said it was OK, but when  Defensive            Dig. L&M             JT
  I read the article in     Kinetix              Dig. Design          JT
  "SMASHER", I saw he made  Night Dawn           Magic Bytes          JB
  a fool of me by writing   Zamzara              Hewson               CD
  strange, wrong or stupid  Iron Lord            UBI-Soft             JT
  answers that I never      Trucc                BWB                  MAD
  said. Anyway, JEFF gave   Chops                BWB                  --
  me the opportunity to     Zynon                Reptilla Des.     CD or JT
  tell you the real         Combat Game          Telecomsoft          JT
  answers: At first I only  Bamboo (perhaps)     Thalamus             --
  made the music for        Bob's FH (perhaps)   Binary Des.          CD
  Double Dragon, Soldier    BAT                  UBI-Soft             JB
  of Light, Zamzara and     Alien Force          Hewson               --
  Parts of Outrun Europe.   Skateball            UBI-Soft             --
  JEROEN TEL and JOHANNES   Stormlord            Hewson               JT
  BJERREGAARD did or have   Mr.Heli              Telecomsoft          CD
  to do the other pieces    Asteroth             Hewson               --
  (you can read further on  Fifth Gear           Hewson               CD
  in this article about     Super Cup Football   Hewson               DG
  it...). We can write our  Firelord             Hewson               CD
  music with a PC with the  2400 AD              Origin Systems       JT
  PDS system. Then he
  asked me about what I'm
  going  to  do  in  the nearest future and I told him that we were dealing
  with Virgin Records about doing a record-son for them, and NOT HAVE DONE!

  And   of  course  I'm  still  in  contact  with  crackers  (for  example:
  SLEDGEHAMMER). He asked me how much we get if we do a piece of music, and
  I  told him that it was not his problem, was it?? In the article he wrote
  some  prices (he didn't get the information from me) and he said I had an
  AUDI  80.  I'm  saving all my money for an AUDI 80 model '88, but I still
  haven't  paid  it fully, so it's not mine (STILL!). FUCK TO "SMASHER" and
  the people who write shit!

  Some  personal greetings: Hello ASH & DAVE, SLH, Tony Dillon of CU (thanx
  for  the call), I&M, JEFF, JT (I speak 2 u every day, but who cares), GOD
  & HAKE, FRANKY of THE LIONS, MWS, KNATTER of XAKK, and most people at the
  Venlo  meeting  (esp. THEO). If I forgot you, then it's possible that the
  Barcardi RUM had a bad influence on your name or I just don't know you...
  See  yah  all,  and  please  don't forget the message I gave you. For all
  those  who  are interested, we've included a list with some of the future
  titles by MANIACS OF NOISE. Enjoy!

  I hope I haven't forgotten anyone, but as usual I'm sure I did... Signed,
  /CHARLES  DEENEN  of MANIACS OF NOISE, XXXXXXXXXXX XXX, XXXX AA Holthees,
  Holland

                              C64 GAME REVIEWS

   * WHO  FRAMED  ROGER  RABBIT?:  As the game has been very well converted
     from  the  Amiga  to  the  64, you can look at the review of the Amiga
     version from the last issue!
   * ROCKET  RANGER:  CINEMAWARE didn't just transform an Amiga game to the
     64,  they even added some new squence to a good game. The graphics are
     one  of  the  best ever seen on 64. Only bad thing is that you have to
     print all codes needed for flying around. 87pts.
   * GRAND  PRIX  CIRCUIT:  This  game can also be called Test Drive II, as
     ACCOLADEpicks  up  all  the  features of Test Drive. This time you can
     test  your  skill on eight different Grand Prix courses in 5 levels...
     Brilliant, 'cuz it saves all your times and names! 95 pts.
   * MICROPROSE SOCCER: The long awaited soccer simulation finally made its
     way  out,  and  it's  even  better  than  everybody expected... If you
     haven't played Microprose Soccer yet, do so. If you did already, do it
     again. Nice to see Martin Galway still living... 98pts.

                             AMIGA GAME REVIEWS

   * WANTED:  Some  quite  good shoot'em-up game made its way down from the
     arcades  to  the home computers. Well, it's finally not the worst game
     to play, so take a closer look at it... 81pts.
   * BOMBUZAL:  Fine  to  see that the programmers didn't run out of ideas.
     Bombuzal  is  some kind of a strategy game which features nice effects
     and about 120 different screens to master. 84pts.
   * PACMANIA: Another fab arcade game has been taken up to be converted...
     Well,  the  graphics  are a lot better then on the 64, that's why it's
     also better here on the Amiga, but both bring fun. 83pts.
   * HOSTAGES: The French fries strike back. Hostages from Infogames offers
     some  good  action  and  good  graphics  plus excellent sound effects.
     Amazing game! 92pts.
   * SPEEDBALL:  Another  fab  French  game.  This  one is something like a
     future-soccer  game  where  you  can also bribe the refs and play in a
     league  or  vs  the computer in some knockout round. It's really bril!
     95pts.

                   Amiga and C64 game reviews done by JS!

                           CHARTS - DECEMBER 1988

               C64 GAMES                          C64 CRACKERS

    1. MICROPROSE SOCCER        (-)      1. IKARI                    (1)
    2. GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT       (-)      2. SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP    (2)
    3. ROCKET RANGER            (-)      3. FAIRLIGHT                (3)
    4. KATAKIS                  (2)      4. A TOUCH OF CLASS         (4)
    5. CYBERNOID II             (3)      5. STRIKE FORCE             (5)
    6. THE LAST NINJA II        (1)      6. EAGLESOFT                (6)
    7. ULTIMA V                 (4)      7. DOUGHNUT CRACKING SERVICE(8)
    8. WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (-)      8. BEASTIE BOYS            (11)
    9. INTENSITY                (6)      9. BROS                    (12)
   10. ARMALYTE                 (5)     10. COSMOS                   (9)
                                        11. DOMINATORS              (15)
                                        12. NO FRILLS INTERNATIONAL  (-)
                                        13. SHINING 8                (7)
                                        14. THE WANDERER GROUP      (13)
                                        15. RADWAR                   (-)

              AMIGA GAMES                        AMIGA CRACKERS

    1. SPEEDBALL                (-)      1. WORLD OF WONDERS
    2. HOSTAGES                 (-)      2. QUARTEX
    3. CAPTAIN BLOOD            (1)      3. RED SECTOR/DEFJAM
    4. BATTLE CHESS             (3)      4. ACKERLIGHT
    5. INTERCEPTOR              (4)      5. ALPHAFLIGHT 1970
    6. PACMANIA                 (-)      6. VISION FACTORY/BEYONDERS
    7. BOMBUZAL                 (-)      7. MEGAFORCE
    8. WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (2)
    9. WANTED                   (-)
   10. STARGLIDER II            (6)

  Thanx  for voting to: MR. SULU + NOSAH/DCS, PACO/BROS, STRIDER/FAIRLIGHT,
  TRANS-X/SCG,  SSD+BIG  BEN/COSMOS,  MWS/RWE, RAGMAN + CONAN/STRIKE FORCE,
  STET/SHINING 8 and all others...
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                              SPECIAL FEATURE:
                     OLYMPIAD OF THE C64 CRACKERS 1988

              BEST GROUP                          BEST CRACKER

    1. IKARI                  40.1%      1. WEETIBIX OF SCG        46.1%
    2. SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP  36.9%      2. GOLLUM of FAIRLIGHT    14.3%
    3. FAIRLIGHT               8.5%      3. JANITOR of TRIAD-RELAX  6.2%
    4. TRIAD                   6.9%      4. JUST ICE of IKARI       6.0%
    5. HOTLINE                 3.3%      5. MR.ZEROPAGE of TLC-RSI  5.7%

            BEST PROGRAMMER                       BEST CLIMBER

    1. WHITE of THE JUDGES    22.7%      1. SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP  24.1%
    2. MR.CURSOR of TWG       20.1%      2. BROS                   22.3%
    3. IAN & MIC              16.4%      3. STRIKE FORCE           10.7%
    4. ASH & DAVE              9.5%      4. SHINING 8               8.3%
    5. SCOOP DESIGN            8.8%      5. A TOUCH OF CLASS        7.1%

               BEST DEMO                       BEST MEETING/PARTY

    1. THAT'S THE WAY IT IS              1. THE PC SHOW '88 (PCS)
        by SCOOP DESIGN       33.8%          in London, England
    2. PIMPLESQUEEZER V                      September 14-18th, '88  42%
        by RAWHEAD            19.2%      2. THE VENLO MEETINGS
    3. TRAIL MIX                             in Venlo, Holland
        by SOEDESOFT           8.6%          every 3rd Saturday      27%
    4. THINK TWICE V                     3. THE RADWAR PARTY
        by THE JUDGES          7.3%          in Heinsberg, Germany
    5. HALFWAY                               January 9th, '88        19%
        by SCG                 7.2%

               BEST GAME                           BEST MUSIC

    1. MICROPROSE SOCCER      34.8%      1. CYBERNOID II by MON    29.7%
    2. KATAKIS                18.1%      2. SAVAGE by MON          26.4%
    3. THE LAST NINJA II      10.2%      3. THE LAST NINJA II
    4. HAWKEYE                 9.6%          by MATT GRAY          14.3%
    5. ULTIMA V                6.4%      4. GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT
                                             by KRIS HATLELID      11.2%
                                         5. THAT'S THE WAY IT IS
                                             by MANIACS OF NOISE    9.7%

              BEST JOKES                    BEST LEGEND OF THE YEAR

    1. MAGIC "REFREEZER" CIRCLE          1. TRIAD'S DECLINE (ESP.
    2. PHOENIX                               MR.PINGE AND JANITOR) 22.1%
    3. DANISH COPYPARTIES                2. SCG'S VERSIONS OF HAWKEYE
    4. STEVE OF ZENITH'S VERSION OF          AND BARBARIAN II      16.8%
        BARBARIAN II                     3. RADWAR ENTERPRISES     11.3%
    5. MIC OF FAME VOMITING IN           4. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF
        RADWAR'S KITCHEN                     IAN OF FUSION          6.3%
    6. RASTERDEMOS (LAST MONTHS)         5. SEEING EAGLESOFT STILL
    7. WOSSUP!? MY DICK!                     RULING THE AMERICAN
    8. HOTLINE - WHERE CRACKING IS           SCENE AFTER SIX YEARS  4.8%
        AN ART                           6. THE AMIGA ATTRACTING MORE
    9. STEVE OF ZENITH MARRYING              AND MORE GROUPS        3.2%
   10. UCF'S COMEBACK                    7. THE "STEVE OF ZENITH SHUT
                                             YOUR MOUF" DEMO        2.9%

  IMPRESSUM

  ILLEGAL (TM) by JEFF SMART
  Issue  #33 - Released on December
  17th 1988 - Circulation: 1200
  Editor-in-Chief:  JEFF  SMART  of
  SCG
  Co-Editors     &    Contributors:
  COSMOS,  FAIRLIGHT,  MAD  ALL  of
  CFR,    IKARI,    TRIANGLE,   NEW
  BENCORS,  DCS, SCG, PE #1, END OF
  CENTURY,   CFR,   RADWAR,  STRIKE
  FORCE,  BEASTIE  BOYS,  WORLD  OF
  WONDERS,  FAC, BROS, HOTLINE, JOE
  WILLIAMS, EAGLESOFT, GOGO BROWN
  Typed in by: THE SHARK of INC
  Preview  of Issue #34: Everything
  about the RADWAR party * A glance
  back  at  1988  & "Cracker of the
  Year" 1988 will be revealed
  Comments:   If   you   have   any
  comments, you're welcome to write
  to us!
